“Trouw Nutrition doesn’t just sell animal feed components, but scientifically based nutritional products and services.” - Nienke de Groot, strategic marketing manager
- Amersfoort, Netherlands
- Full time
Are you a passionate and experienced marketing or project manager with a particular interest in ruminant nutrition? Do you want to play an important role in spearheading strategic initiatives and shaping our mineral portfolio to bolster the company’s market presence in? Then Nutreco is looking for you!
About the job
Minerals are of huge strategic importance to Trouw Nutrition’s business globally. One of the pillars within Trouw Nutrition’s ECA strategy is to implement initiatives that drive better efficiencies across our business, sales profit and B2F engagement. In this new role of Ruminant Mineral Manager, your core responsibility involves being the driving force behind the standardization of our ruminant mineral portfolio across ECA (Europe and Central Asia) whilst also incorporating a responsible mineral approach by applying best practice knowledge from R&D.
You will interdisciplinary cooperate with departments like Sales, Pricing, Marketing, Procurement, Sustainability and Formulations. Not only at an ECA level but local level in both B2B and B2DF markets. Furthermore, you will drive clarity across our mineral portfolio, and collaborate with R&D and the innovation team to develop new innovative value propositions enhancing our mineral portfolio to meet future market needs for the ruminant sector.
The successful candidate will ideally have technical knowledge for ruminants.
This role will involve close collaboration and support for local business, especially in carrying out internal and external analyses of the market, portfolio management, training and upskilling local business colleagues and solutions deployment.
What we ask
For this position, we are looking for someone who is passionate about ruminant nutrition and has a flare for attention to detail. The successful candidate will join a passionate, dynamic team that works together to meet the growing challenges of our customers.
The candidate will be able to unite people behind one common goal, work in a structured way and is analytical. Excellent communication and organizational skills are also important for alignment of different parties and project progress.
What you bring
You have at least a Bachelor/Master’s degree;
Minimum of 2 years working experience as a Marketing or Project Manager;
Affinity with the agricultural sector; especially ruminants
Your English is fluent (both written and verbal);
You live in Europe and will be willing to travel to Amersfoort on a regular base or other locations in ECA if needed.
What we offer
Nutreco’s mission is to feed the future. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. Working for Nutreco means a fantastic position in an international working environment with lots of development opportunities.
Working for us is challenging, varied, and rewarding. We believe that social responsibility, transparency, and sustainability are important for long-term viability. We encourage an open culture with accessible managers, an international working environment with good development and training possibilities.
We offer a great position within a newly established ECA Team. Working in this new challenging but exciting position offers plenty of opportunities within a BU full of driven and ambitious colleagues. It is a new position within a company that truly thinks from the customer's perspective. You will be part of a global ecosystem that ensures innovation and optimizes profitable growth. There are also opportunities for growth through learning from the expertise of different departments and senior colleagues who are willing to share their knowledge
What else is in it for you?
We will offer you a fulltime position, 40 hours per week;
Competitive remuneration package with a good pension scheme;
Responsibility for your own projects and development opportunities within the company;
Flexible work environment with the option to work (partly) from home.
Extra information / Apply direct
Are you the candidate we are looking for? We would like to hear from you! You can express your interest in this role by clicking the button “apply now’’ and we will contact you as soon as possible. For more information regarding this vacancy you can contact Linda de Noronha (Recruiter) at 0031 6 81 91 83 64.
For all agencies, we would like to fill this position ourselves, so acquisition is not appreciated.
About Trouw Nutrition
Trouw Nutrition has a 90-year history of dedication to innovation and deep experience in developing smarter and more sustainable ways of raising healthy farm animals and companion animals. Our team of 8,300 passionate people in 32 countries relentlessly pursue solutions to the challenges facing our feed-to-food chain to help our customers Feed the Future.
Our broad portfolio of feed specialties, feed additives, premixes and nutritional models and services, along with our ever-increasing expertise in feed, farm and health makes us a one-stop-shop with limitless opportunities to create tailored, integrated solutions suited to each customer’s local situation.
Trouw Nutrition is part of Nutreco, global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed, which in turn is part of the SHV Family of Companies, unifying over 50,000 people around the world.
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